truth is stranger than fiction

Etymology
Attributed to.

Proverb

 * 1) Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.

Translations

 * Finnish: totuus on tarua ihmeellisempää
 * French:
 * Irish: is iontaí fírinne ná finscéal
 * Japanese: 事実は小説より奇なり
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: la realidad supera a la ficción